It is hard to believe that 100 days ago I embarked on a project where I committed to make a piece of art every day for 100 days. That’s a lot of days and a lot of art. I wrote about the project on Day 50, so if you want more info just click on the link.
In a nutshell, over the past 100 days I created art using scraps of brown paper bags. The mediums I used included oil and cold wax, acrylic paint, and collage. Some of the materials I used in the pieces: black and white photographs, Stabilo Woody Crayons, pencils, vintage ephemera, book scraps, paper frames, and charcoal. Techniques and designs included splatter painting, drawing, stripes, circles, stencils, scraping, tearing, gluing, squeegees, and mark-making.
What I learned during the past 100 days:
- True art is in the doing and there is no shortcut for that.
- I like to work fast to keep the inner critic quiet.
- It was freeing to work on such an unimportant substrate as a brown paper bag.
- I kept pushing myself to be bolder and to make more startling moves on my daily pieces.
- It was amazing to create so many pieces, and although each piece was different, they created a unified body of work.
- Some days it was this project that propelled me to go into my studio. Sometimes I stayed.
- Several new ideas emerged from this project and I am letting them percolate for future projects.
- A very exciting byproduct was how two of the paper pieces I created inspired bigger paintings!
Here is a random assortment of pieces from the second half of the project:
Right now I am celebrating the completion of the project . . . .
. . . . but I have some ideas brewing for moving forward with these pieces.
I have this wacky idea of offering some of these completed pieces for sale and giving first notice to those who are on my mailing list. Haven’t signed up yet? Want to? Here’s a LINK.